pywin32_testall.py timezone tests fails in non American regional settings machine

[csrabak]

• Expected behavior and actual behavior.

The tests are expected to go green, but fail due the locale (and time zone) are different from the designed for the tests?

For example:

File "C:\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32timezone.py", line 22, in win32timezone
Failed example:
assert 'Mountain Standard Time' in win32timezone.TimeZoneInfo.get_sorted_time_zone_names()
Exception raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python\Python311\Lib\doctest.py", line 1351, in __run
exec(compile(example.source, filename, "single",
File "<doctest win32timezone[1]>", line 1, in
assert 'Mountain Standard Time' in win32timezone.TimeZoneInfo.get_sorted_time_zone_names()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError

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File "C:\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32timezone.py", line 58, in win32timezone
Failed example:
str(est.displayName)
Expected:
'(UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)'
Got:
'(UTC-05:00) Hora Oriental (EUA e Canadá)'

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• Steps to reproduce the problem.

C:\Python\Python311>py Scripts\pywin32_testall.py

• Version of Python and pywin32
  Python 3.11.4
  pywin32 Release 306

[mhammond]

It works for me in Australia, so I suspect the problem is the locale and not the specific timezone.

[csrabak]

I undertand your comment as the locale triggers the problem, which I concur plainly, as the expression of the assertion is in English and the returned one is in Portuguese.

I did not dig into the source code to understand, but for me is a puzzle, why would the script get the timezone in English and collect it in the locale language. . .

I surmize that the script changes the timezone for the sake of the test, as when the run (above) generated the results, the machine wasn't in UTC-5 but UTC-3.

Perhaps the test should ascertain the locale (or language for the collection of the string) be always English?

HTH